Process of elevating liquids



May s, 1923- J. C. GRANT PROCESS oF-ELEVATING LIQUIDS Filed Dec. 8., 1,920

Illi Q Patented May 8, 1923.

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JOHN CAMERON GRANT, or Baia-NES, LONDON, ENGLAND( v y FROCESS OF ELEVATING LIQUIDS.

Application filed December 8, 1920. Serial No. 429,207.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. GRANT, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Holly Lodge, The 'Ierrace7 Barnes, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Processes of Elevating Liquids, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to improve the art of elevating liquids semiliquids7 etc., particularly water, oils, syrups or water mixed with clay or other matter.

In my prior Patent No. 1,358,632 I have described an apparatus particularly adapted to carry out my improved process but I have found that my improved process may be performed by other and varied forms of apparatus hence my improved processwhile illustrated with the apparatus of my prior patent is not limited to any particular apparatus.

I have found that if an open structure such as a chain or succession of open helices or the like be passed through a body of liquid and raised with sufficient velocity, large quantities of the liquid will adhere to the loose structure by capillary attraction and be raised with the structure. The particles or portions of the liquid adhering to the open ascending structure will carry other particles so that if the ascent be sufficiently rapid a practically solid column of ascending liquid will be formed on all sides of the open structure, then after the liquid has been elevated to the desired height if the open structure be run around a circle or part of a circle at a sufhciently rapid speed the centrifugall force developed together with the inertia of the column of liquid can be so utilized that practically all the liquid from all sides of the open structure will leave it and the open structure can then be returned to the body of liquid practically dry. In the accompanying drawings which illustrate a method of practicing this invention Fig. l is a sectional view showing the operation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional viewl of a part of the open structure and Fig. 3 is a view at a right angle to the view in F ig. 2. y

Numeral 1 designates individual coils of a helix or the like which may be conveniently overlapped and rods 2 passed through the over lapped portions to hold the helices in their relative positions. 4 designates links between the rods to take the strain or weight oil' the helices and 5 designates a wheel or the like turned by a suitable source of power. not shown. l

l/Yhen wheel 5 -is turnedA sufficiently rapidly a column of liquid willv be elevated and asv the open structure turns around the wheel if the wheel is rotated at the proper speed the liquid will practically all leave the wheel and the structure will return lpracti cally dry.

The essence of this invention is that the wheel 5 must be of such size and be run at such speed that the centrifugal action and momentum of the column will cause practically all the liquid toleave the structure, but to accomplish this result I have found that the wheel must be run at different speeds for different liquids some-liquids or semiliquids requiring a higher rate of speed than others to completely separate the liquid from the open structure. On the otherhand some structures require different rates of speed to separate the same liquid from what is required for other structures.

ing my invention I do not intend to be. limited to the exact details but expect the doctrine ofequivalents to apply to the appended claims.

l. The method of elevating a Lliquid or semiliquid which consists in passing through the liquid an open structure supported only at its ends thus permitting a solid column of liquid to be lifted unimpeded until freed from the structure by cenrifugal action, then elevating the open structure rectilinearly sufliciently fast to form a column of liquid on S0 i Having described one method of practicall sides of the open structure changing the tinuing the circular mot-ion of the structure' suiciently rapidly to develop forces great enough to separate the liquid on both sides' of the open structure from the same. Y

2. The method of lifting a liquid orsemiliquid which consists in passing through'` the liquid an open structuraguided and supported so that a column of liquid may be lifted unimpeded on both the inner and Outer sides of the open structure, lifting thel structure rectilinearly sufficiently fast to form a column of liquid on both the inner and outer sides of the open structure, changing` the rectilinear motion to a circular mo- 5 tion Without obstructing the column o fines' of the open structure.

liquid on either the inner or outer side of In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

the open structure, Operating the structure JOHN CAMERON GRANT.

sufficiently rapidly to develop centrifugal forces great enough to separate the liquid on both sides of the Open structure from the l0 structure and to project it beyond the con- 

